SPJ/LA Announces Newly Elected Board Members

The Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists elected five members to serve three-year terms on the group’s 15-member board.

Sarah Favot, county government reporter for the L.A. Daily News and the Los Angeles News Group, was newly elected to the board.

Four incumbents were reelected. They are: Joel Bellman, freelance writer and former press deputy for Sheila Kuehl; Stephanie Bluestein, journalism assistant professor at CSU-Northridge; Navid Nonahal, freelance journalist; and David Zahniser, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times.

Richard Hendrickson, journalism professor, was elected to a one-year term to fill a seat vacated earlier this year.

The Society of Professional Journalists is the nation’s largest and most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to promoting high standards of ethical behavior and encouraging the free practice of journalism. Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. The Greater Los Angeles professional chapter was chartered 25 years later in 1934.